Getty Images Last night I heard footsteps of death! T'was way past midnight, laying in my sickbed in hospital. Thru the airy quiet of the early morning: medical machines were going on in their usual harmonized chorus! All seemed quiet and normal, with all patients in this massive ward; sleeping and resting soundly: when suddenly... I heard what sounded like quick marching steps: these sounded scariest; I ducked my head under the blankets and listened in awe of the spaces between each step taken! Surely these weren't human steps given the distance and time to reach the end of the ward. In my normal human steps it'd taken more than 70 to reach end of the ward but: to my amazement, it took the creature some 12 steps to get there. While wondering at the speed, the creature was already on top of the old man; wrestling and strangling him! Death hath crossed the line of grace and this was the night the old man was supposed to die. But the old man... Fought back, his bed shaking